Lifestyle
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Award-winning Harper College students discover the therapeutic power of artAug 28, 2024 11:30 am - Harper College students Lain Dennis and Jefferson Sobczak grew up in different parts of the U.S., have different educational paths and employ their artistic talents in wildly different ways.
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Septemberfest returns with rides, parade, fireworks, Taste of SchaumburgAug 28, 2024 11:15 am - One of the biggest Labor Day festivals in the suburbs, Schaumburg’s Septemberfest returns this weekend with rides, music, Taste of Schaumburg, a parade, fireworks and more.
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Celebrating 100 years: Suburban Girl Scouts to mark centennial of regional campgroundAug 28, 2024 10:22 am - Not every place that’s helped build the childhoods of suburban residents is actually in the suburbs. One such place -- Camp Juniper Knoll in East Troy, Wisconsin -- has been serving Girl Scouts of the Chicago area for exactly 100 years.
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Coffee, headphones and cookies among O’Hare’s latest products to tempt travelers on the flyAug 28, 2024 9:26 am - Here’s what just opened at O’Hare’s Terminal 5 as the city continues to expand concessions.
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Tequila and butter create a saucy base for garlicky, spicy shrimp
Aug 28, 2024 6:00 am - Saucy, spicy shrimp paired with a cold beer or margarita is a simple summertime meal that’s best enjoyed outside with lots of napkins.
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Edible or not? Alicia Silverstone’s misstep shows how toxic lookalikes can fool you
Aug 28, 2024 12:35 am - Don’t be like Alicia Silverstone. Don’t get caught mixing up a poisonous lookalike when deciding to try nature’s bounty.
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Got pruning remorse? How to fill in those bare spaces
Aug 28, 2024 12:10 am - Faced with some wide-bottomed evergreens overtaking a walkway, this gardener was forced to cut the bottom branches all the way back to the trunks — leaving behind bare spots and ugly-duckling tree trunks. She recommends some good plants to fill the spots to create an “understory.”
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Home & garden calendar, Sept. 1-7Aug 27, 2024 11:04 pm - Mushrooms, roses, tubers, bats and native plant sales — area garders are covering it all.
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Naperville’s Celebration preschool celebrates 20 yearsAug 27, 2024 11:00 pm - There’s school pride, and then there’s the kind of school buy-in that Naperville’s Kelly Gilligan witnesses as director of Celebration Children’s Center preschool, which is celebrating its 20th year in operation in 2024-25.
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‘We stuck together’: Reservists get warm welcome home in Arlington HeightsAug 27, 2024 7:28 pm - Balloons, flowers and tearful reunions greeted about 100 U.S. Army reservists Tuesday as they returned to their home base in Arlington Heights after a nine-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.